“If you’re trying to please everyone, then you’re not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don’t think, in the long run.”
Viggo Mortensen
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I'm Talullah; if I am not here, I am probably at the cinema.
“If you’re trying to please everyone, then you’re not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don’t think, in the long run.”
Viggo Mortensen
“A particular concern for Richard was Tolkien’s description of Thorin having a beard that is considerably longer than the one he has grown for the film. ‘I needed to find a reason for this and when I read Thorin’s account of how when his grandfather and father, Thrór and Thráin, came out of the lonely mountain after the attack by Smaug the dragon, they had singed beards. This gave me the solution: he has his beard cut short, as a mark of respect to the indignity suffered by them. Perhaps if he ever gets to sit on his throne again as king he’ll grow a big old beard and tuck it into his belt, just like Tolkien wanted!’”
Richard Armitage
On Bearded Women
“The best special effect we see in the entire film experience is Dean O’Gorman’s face this morning.”
James Nesbitt
But let me ask you something about the staying power of myth. Why have these stories such a holding power on us? (X)
“I actually stole a little gem of that from him for my character. I wanted Thorin to lead with that quiet authority. I wanted him to inspire loyalty rather than command it, and that’s exactly how Peter Jackson works.”
Richard Armitage on Peter Jackson inspiring his characterisation of Thorin (x)
“So we made that decision that we were going to go younger, and then from that point in terms of Richard Armitage, he was the youngest actor to audition for that role. It had nothing to do with the fact that he is gorgeous (laughs), it had to do with the fact that he did a phenomenal audition and the notion that you had this dark conflicted character, but was also quite grunty, Northern, English – like a dwarf.”
Philippa Boyens on casting Richard Armitage as Thorin
“This’ll end our careers on the spot if we even open our mouths to sing.”
Aidan Turner on singing in The Hobbit
“I won’t even tell you what June looked like.”
Graham McTavish on Peter Jackson’s Naughty Dwarf Calendar
What is the most obscure piece of Tolkien trivia that you know? [x]
How do you think Thorin would fare in our world today ?
“You know what, I always got Fili and Kili the wrong way around. But I did work out a way of figuring it out. ‘Kili’ means ‘cute’. ‘Fili’… well I can’t tell you what that one means, but you can imagine.”
Richard Armitage on how he differentiates between Fili & Kili
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Rape jokes are unacceptable and should not be tolerated under any circumstances.
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No more apologies.
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